Solution Brief

Dell PowerFlex
Unbounded software-defined infrastructure for the modern enterprise
Unbounded flexibility

PowerFlex
Business Value
Outcomes

321%
5-year ROI*

47%
Reduced total cost ofoperations*70%

Information Technology is central to the functioning of today’s business, enabling critical competitive
advantages. Organizations must deliver complex services at an unprecedented pace to help organizations meettheir objectives in an increasingly complex and fast-paced business landscapes.
To address these requirements, many IT organizations are modernizing their IT infrastructure. Organizations
want to focus on deploying applications and services that drive business objectives and spend less timebuilding and managing IT infrastructure. They are adopting technologies that eliminate complexities, facilitate
automation, allow them to consume infrastructure services consistently and effortlessly to power theinnovative applications and workloads that enable business agility.

A Unified, Modern platform
Software-defined approaches provide compelling choices to deliver this organizational agility. It allows
organizations to automate, hence ensuring application requirements are automatically met. Additionally,ease in management allows organizations to utilize personnel efficiently. Also, they combine industrystandard hardware with software to pool and manage resources, thereby optimizing resource allocation.
When selecting a software-defined platform, there are some critical aspects to consider:

More efficient IT Staff*•The platform must support diverse workload needs such as multiple operating systems, hypervisors andcontainer orchestration platforms, as well as distinct scaling needs and specific data services.

“PowerFlex
provides us
the stability,scalability,resiliency, andperformancethat ourleading-edge
applications
require.”•It must enhance simplicity and agility of the environment by adopting standards andautomation.

•It must deliver stringent SLAs predictably and do so at scale. It also must be able to offer
enterprise reliability, security, and critical data services.

BURAK HOBAN,
PRINCIPAL PLATFORM
ARCHITECT, IAG

PowerFlex: An unbounded adaptable Software-Defined Infrastructure
Dell PowerFlex, a software-defined infrastructure, provides a solid foundation for the customers for their IT
infrastructure modernization. The journey begins with unconstrained consolidation as customers can combine
disparate, heterogeneous workloads onto a common platform, maximizing TCO savings. PowerFlex offers a richout-of-the-box toolset that includes PowerFlex REST API, Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) and CSI drivers,
and PowerFlex Ansible modules,
that help streamline operations
and boost business agility.
Finally, software-driven storage
optimization ensuresunrestricted IO and throughput
performance with submillisecond latency and linear
scalability to 1,000s of nodes.
Such fundamental differentiators
continue to allow customers tooptimize their outcomes,
whether modernizing a highperformance database orconsolidating large application
landscapes.

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Workload performance claims based on internal Dell testing. * Source: IDC Business Value Snapshot for PowerFlex - 2020

Modernize without limits
PowerFlex is a powerful software-defined infrastructure platform for customers at any stage of their modernization journey. It unifies
the delivery of block and file storage, and compute resources in an engineered integrated system while supporting a wide range of
operating environments on a common platform. It supports multiple container management and hyperscaler environments while
simplifying workload and infrastructure coordination across your on-premises and cloud assets. PowerFlex also offers NVMe/TCP
connectivity, giving customers an option to utilize industry standards. These capabilities empower organizations to optimallyconsolidate a diverse set of workloads with varying requirements and operating environments and drive transformational TCOsavings.

Automate for agility
PowerFlex is engineered to streamline operations and boost agility with intelligent software-driven automation. PowerFlex Manager, aunified management toolset for PowerFlex systems, simplifies IT Operations Management (ITOM) and Life Cycle Management (LCM)
tasks by providing extensive automation. It enables automated deployments and expansions with minimal hands-on time for the ITteam, letting them focus on other strategic initiatives. Further, a rich out-of-the-box toolset including PowerFlex REST API, PowerFlex
Ansible modules, and Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) and CSI drivers enhance DevOps productivity and IT agility. Lastly, DellCloudIQ intelligent insights simplify monitoring of distributed multi-location PowerFlex deployments by providing a seamless cloudbased AIOps mechanism.

Optimize your outcomesPowerFlex is designed from the ground up to deliver consistent predictable outcomes at large scales for your most-demanding missioncritical environments. It is optimized for a wide range of validated workload solutions ranging from traditional relational databases andmodern cloud-native NoSQL databases to throughput-intensive analytics workloads.

The architecture delivers massive performance for I/O and throughput-intensive workloads by aggregating resources across many
nodes while optimizing data path and placement to deliver the best outcomes. Mission-critical applications running on PowerFlex
deliver millions of IOPs at sub-millisecond latency without requiring massive infrastructure build-out, scale the performance linearly to
1,000s of nodes and ensure 99.9999% availability with real-life workloads. Additionally, the software-driven approach provides
adaptability, enabling customers to quickly scale their infrastructure to address specific resource bottlenecks and reconstruct andrecompose their resource pools to address changing seasonal or long-term requirements.

PowerFlex, with its software-driven infrastructure optimization, accelerates customers’ modernization andconsolidation initiatives, ensuring optimal workload execution to meet stringent SLAs and providing extensive
automation capabilities to boost business agility.

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Workload performance claims based on internal Dell testing. * Source: IDC Business Value Snapshot for PowerFlex - 2020